The Pursued - Hardcover

Forester, C.S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0141198079 ISBN 13: 9780141198071

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2011

Synopsis

Marjorie had never seen a dead body until she got home one tranquil summer evening and found her sister Dot lying on the kitchen floor in a pretty dress, with her head in the oven. She looked peaceful, as if she was asleep. Their mother suspects, however, that Dot's death was far from natural. What's more, she knows who the killer is - and she is determined to make him suffer. So slowly and meticulously, she plots her revenge. After all, who would suspect a neatly dressed, grey-haired widow of anything? And what could possibly go wrong?

The Pursued, C. S. Forester's dark, twisted tale of murder, lust and retribution, was written in 1935, but its typescript manuscript was lost. More than seven decades later, it has now been rediscovered and is published for the first time. It is a novel years ahead of its time; rewriting the traditions of crime fiction to create a gripping psychological portrayal of obsession, jealousy, torment and the grim underside of suburban London life.

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Review:

C. S. Forester is a splendid storyteller (Guardian)

I recommend Forester to every literate I know (Ernest Hemingway)

The Pursued is a wonderful, almost miraculous discovery: a hitherto unknown crime novel by an author who is the unsung godfather of English noir (Andrew Taylor)

Forester has a great eye and a subtle understanding of the dangerous passions lurking just beneath the surface of everyday life. A riveting read. (Sarah Waters)

a tale of very English murder, it foreshadows the unease of metropolitan life in its near-contemporaries, George Orwell's Coming Up for Air, Patrick Hamilton's Hangover Square and Graham Greene's Brighton Rock (Adrian Turpin Financial Times)

Closer to the fiction of George Orwell and Patrick Hamilton than to the polite and essentially reassuring puzzles of Christie and Sayers ... vivid, technically accomplished and compelling (Observer)

Book Description:

Agripping psychological portrayal of obsession, jealousy, torment ...

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0141198079
• ISBN 13: 9780141198071
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224